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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>GENESIS</span>
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CHAPTER 8
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The flood ceases—Noah sends forth a dove, which returns with an olive leaf—He releases all living things from the ark—He offers sacrifices—Seedtime and harvest and seasons assured.
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And</span> God remembered <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/8/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Heb. 11: 7; 1 Pet. 3: 20 (20-21); 2 Pet. 2: 5.">Noah</a>, and every living thing, and all the cattle that <i>was</i> with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/8/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR subsided.">asswaged</a>;
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/8/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 7: 11.">fountains</a> also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
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And the waters <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/8/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ether 13: 2.">returned</a> from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/8/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Flood.">waters</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/8/3c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR had decreased.">were</a> abated.
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And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
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And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth <i>month,</i> on the first <i>day</i> of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
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&#182; And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
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And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
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Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
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But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters <i>were</i> on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
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And he <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/8/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR waited another.">stayed</a> yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
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And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth <i>was</i> an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
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And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
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&#182; And it came to pass in the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/8/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 7: 6.">six</a> hundredth and first year, in the first <i>month,</i> the first <i>day</i> of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
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And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
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&#182; And God spake unto Noah, saying,
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Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/8/16a" mark="a" type="C" title="Moses 7: 42; Moses 8: 12; TG Family, Patriarchal.">wife</a>, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
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Bring forth with thee every living thing that <i>is</i> with thee, of all flesh, <i>both</i> of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/8/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 9: 7; Gen. 28: 3; Gen. 35: 11.">fruitful</a>, and <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/8/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 9: 1.">multiply</a> upon the earth.
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And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:
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Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, <i>and</i> whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/8/19a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB families.">kinds</a>, went forth out of the ark.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/8/20a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Gen. 9: 4-6 (Appendix).">And</a> Noah builded an altar unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and took of every <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/8/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Food.">clean</a> beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/8/20c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sacrifice.">offerings</a> on the altar.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> smelled a sweet <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/8/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 29: 18; Lev. 1: 9; Eph. 5: 2.">savour</a>; and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said in his heart, I will not again <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/8/21b" mark="b" type="C" title="Enos 1: 10; Alma 10: 22; 3 Ne. 22: 9 (8-10); TG Curse; TG Earth, Curse of.">curse</a> the ground any more <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/8/21c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR because of man.">for</a> man’s sake; for the <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/8/21d" mark="d" type="A" title="Gen. 6: 5.">imagination</a> of man’s heart <i>is</i> <sup>e</sup><a href="gen/8/21e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Evil.">evil</a> from his youth; neither will I again <sup>f</sup><a href="gen/8/21f" mark="f" type="B" title="TG Earth, Cleansing of.">smite</a> any more every thing living, as I have done.
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While the earth remaineth, <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/8/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 9: 13 (13-15).">seedtime</a> and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/8/22b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 33: 20 (20, 25).">night</a> shall not cease.
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